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The problem with just saying "conservative" is there are fiscal conservatives and then there are social conservatives. You think 50 years ago they ever thought

• eli_gottlieb 13y ago
  Basically, cultural/lifestyle issues, military issues, and economic issues are intertwined, but largely separate. You can be a "fiscal conservative, social liberal" proprietarian, and you can also be a "economic social-democrat, social conservative" (like most of the working-class population in most countries, by the way). Or you can go "full partisan retard", pick one "side" of the "spectrum", and take that "side" on every separate spectrum, thus resulting in the traditional strawmen of "liberals" or "conservatives". Personally, I've actually become more culturally liberal the further I get out of university. College liberals are awful and horrendously stupid to boot, but seeing people who've left their parents' support and still manage to hold liberal positions drives me towards that position. Kind of like how conservatives tend to oppose gay marriage right up until meeting the average actual gay couple, and realizing that, hold on, those "godless liberals" are just like us "normal, decent folk"!